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    Police use drug addict as informant, get what you might expect

    Very good piece of investigative reporting: http://blogs.westword.com/latestword/2014/11/trinidad_war_on_drugs_attacked_the_innocent.php Long story short: The Trinidad (Colo.) Police Department had two drug addicts serve as informants for a drug investigation, leading to a large amount of...
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    Oklahoma HS Wants Final Minute of Playoff Game Replayed

    http://usatodayhss.com/2014/douglass-oklahoma-city-locust-grove-officials-mistake Long story short: A dead-ball penalty after a go-ahead touchdown in the final minutes was incorrectly assessed as a penalty from the original line of scrimmage. Should the final minute be replayed? Or do you just...
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    Okla. newspaper publisher dead, son arrested

    http://www.news9.com/story/26795393/son-charged-with-3-counts-of-murder-in-duncan-triple-homicide I worked in Oklahoma for about a year. Never met the publisher (John Hruby, who owned The Marlow Review, a weekly), but watched his daughter play volleyball. She and her mother were also killed...
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    What Local Bookstores Can Do

    Paraphrasing the title of this American Conservative article: http://www.theamericanconservative.com/olmstead/5-things-every-local-bookstore-should-do/ I remember visiting locally owned bookstores when I was young and how I enjoyed going through what they had. In Bernalillo, N.M., there was a...
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    The Growth Ponzi Scheme

    The title of the thread is the same as the title of this Strong Towns post: http://www.strongtowns.org/the-growth-ponzi-scheme/ It pretty much explains how the suburban model has been developed and why the suburbs are stuck in a vicious cycle of racking up debt to pay for infrastructure, then...
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    Why Do Americans Stink At Math

    Thread title is the article title... and the answer appears to be, "We've always done it this way before."...
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    What Would Mark Twain Think Of Common Core

    Paraphrasing the title of an interesting article at The Atlantic. http://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2014/07/what-would-mark-twain-have-thought-of-the-common-core/374114/ This part really drew my attention:
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    Sports Editor: Kingman Leader-Courier

    Advertised on okpress.com: Newspaper: Kingman Leader-Courier City: Kingman, Kan. Salary: Competitive With Benefits Job Description: The Kingman Leader-Courier, a family-owned and award-winning newspaper, seeks an energetic and multimedia-minded sports editor. Our coverage area includes two high...
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    Sports Writer: The Duncan Banner

    Passing this on from the Oklahoma Press Association website: City: Duncan Newspaper: The Duncan Banner Salary Range: Negotiable Job Description: Help continue the tradition of an award-winning sports section. A promotion has created the opening for a sports writer or assistant sports editor...
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    Lawrence Tynes' wife is not happy with the Bucs

    Amanda Tynes, the wife of NFL placekicker Lawrence Tynes, is none too pleased with the way the Tampa Bay Buccaneers have handled the staph infection her husband received. http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/nfl-shutdown-corner/lawrence-tynes-wife-doesn-t-seem-happy-notion-154243129.html...
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